Word: buckleys
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...most controversy was generated not by the depth of the problem but by the attitude of the U.S., which accounts for 44% of the developed world's contributions to global family planning. In his address, Radio Free Europe Director and Chief U.S. Delegate James Buckley announced that the U.S. would redirect its financial assistance to organizations that do not promote abortion as a method of family planning. Said Buckley: "This reflects a sharpening of focus to make U.S. foreign assistance programs more responsive to true needs and more reflective of fundamental values...
...Buckley also angered many delegates by emphasizing the Administration's view that the solution to the world's population problem lies not just in family planning but in the adoption of free-market policies. "Concentration of economic decision making in the hands of planners and public officials," he said, "tends to inhibit individual initiative and sometimes cripples the ability of men and women to work toward a better future." Buckley cited the examples of Hong Kong and South Korea, in which increases in population were accompanied by rapid economic growth because, he said, the private sector has been...
Although federal law already prohibits the use of U.S. funds for abortions in other countries, the new policy threatens to go further. It would cut off funds to private organizations that perform or actively promote abortion. The U.S., Buckley said, will continue to support the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and other agencies, but it will require that they provide concrete assurances that funds are not being used for abortion or "coercive family planning," a reference to forced sterilization. In addition, any government that practices or promotes abortion as part of its family-planning program will have to assure...
...There is no such thing as a Nazi who is also qualified to teach in a community of scholars. Nor is there such a thing as a communist qualified to teach in a community of scholars," Buckley wrote. "The only thing more anaesthetizing to moral sensibilities than to have a communist on a faculty of a college is to have as its president someone who can not penetrate that distinction...
Chernenko: Oh Chebbie, we should sign that man up for Kremlin speech-writing; he has such a catchy turn of the phrase. But what a dumkopf! Doesn't Buckley know that that kind of posturing only caters to the peaceniks and the detentists? I can already hear the shrieking in the halls of Harvard, about blacklisting and freedom of speech and all that other liberal clap-trap...